About us.

We are a design and photography company based in Boston Metrowest, with clients across the country. We listen carefully to your goals for a project. We work collaboratively to craft solutions that connect with your audience, advance your organization, and create excitement about your work.

Axie BreenOwner, Designer, Photographer

I have years of experience working primarily with non-profit organizations, small businesses and arts organizations. I enjoy putting on the “audience hat”—imagining the user’s point of view when creating content and visuals that will resonate. I love creating work that gets people excited and accomplishes goals.

I also offer photography. I dove into portrait photography as an additional service, which lets me work in a more personal way with clients. It’s a fun, different way to create images that engage. See more here: Axie Breen Photography

In my time outside the studio, I teach tai chi at YMAA Boston, sing classical music, and hike with my dog, Lucy. And belly dance. And read like there’s no tomorrow. Also I’m married and the mom of two fine young men.

Education:
BFA in Graphic Design with Bronze Tablet honors,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Coursework at the New England School of Photography

Brian RobinsonTechnology Consultant

My focus these days is a combination of web site implementation, technology infrastructure design, and application design/implementation. I think of the process of applying technology to solve business problems very much as a dance — weaving together people, hardware, and software in way a way that creates elegant solutions.

Writing, Public Relations

Education

Brookline High School (Brookline, Massachusetts)
Columbia College Chicago – Center for Black Music Research
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Village Montessori School (Montgomery Village, Maryland)

In the words of Tony the Tiger…

The report looks great

and we’ve gotten a fantastic response from it—lots of press coverage and lots of inquiries. Thanks so much for all of your great work on this.
– Rachel Unruh, Women Employed (Chicago, Illinois)

I love the new concert postcards.

They have the eye-catching colors of this “juicy” season but also convey the grand spirituality and beauty of the music. Congratulations, Axie. I think I’ll run out and get a frame!
– Peter Pulsifer, Chorus pro Musica (Boston, Massachusetts)

You guys are

terrific and so nice to work with.
–Jo Luttrell, GCIR (Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees; Sebastopol, California)

Great job! I was really

pleased (typical British understatement in play here) to see the various covers. All of them in their own way were great. I’m blessed to be surrounded by so much talent at YMAA.
– Michael Clarke, author (Launceston, Tasmania, Australia)

What a striking, unique

and unusual image for Turandot! She does look contemporary and icy. I particularly like it because it is not the typical Turandot, and it has such authenticity.
– Janet Saad, Concert Opera Boston

What a week!

We survived it all and got so, so, so, so many props for the way everything looked. The most exciting news is that we met with White House domestic policy staff on Thursday and they said that as they were preparing the president’s speech for last Tuesday, they had the Skills2Compete brochure that you designed and they were all going through it with their highlighters and marking up what to put in [President Obama’s] speech… Exciting!
– Rachel Unruh, National Skills Coalition (Washington, D.C.)

I wish you could

be with us in NYC to celebrate the anniversary! You’ve been such an instrumental part of Team GCIR all these years. We’ll raise our glasses to you!
– Alison, Vanessa, Amanda and Rebecca, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (Sebastopol, California)

You are an amazing designer

to work with, and I will be sending as many of these jobs your way as possible. Everyone at YMAA is floored by your work.
– David Silver, YMAA Publication Center (Wolfeboro, New Hampshire)

The consensus is

I had a breakfast meeting yesterday

with Martha Jones, President of the Celebrity Series. I had previously sent her a brochure, and she was very complimentary about it. I just wanted you to know what an impact your work has had on CpM and its reputation.
– Alison Palmer, Chorus pro Musica (Boston, Massachusetts)